Entrepreneurship in Russia: A Systematic Overview of Domestic Publications

Abstract

Over the past three decades, entrepreneurship and related processes and institutions have been widely discussed in Russian academic literature. In order to understand the achievements, thematic gaps, and methodological problems that must be solved in subsequent studies, this article provides a systematic analysis of research papers on the topic of Russian entrepreneurship considering publications from leading Russian academic journals published in the period of 1991–2023. The analysis enabled the identification of the most elaborated topics, revealing the advances in the theoretical understanding of Russian entrepreneurship, as well as contradictions in research programs and empirical methods within publications on this topic in Russian and international journals. As a result of the analysis, promising scientific research areas for further investigation of entrepreneurship are proposed: (1) the reconceptualization of standard definitions/concepts of the theory of entrepreneurship, considering the Russian context; (2) building new theories and concepts of the middle level based on the investigation of unique phenomena and institutions in the Russian business environment.

Keywords

• entrepreneurship
• Russia
• systematic literature review
• structured literature review
• reconceptualization
• contextualization